Study reveals loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models.

Research into ocean's plankton likely to lead to negative revision of global climate calculations.

Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of a network of scientists providing benchmark emissions data.

Residents of Venice have reported spotting dolphins, swans and fish in newly clear canal waters after the usually bustling city went quiet as coronavirus spread throughout Italy.  

A satellite that detects pollution from human activity shows how the coronavirus is shutting down whole countries.

The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the rich.

Air pollution over northern Italy fell after the government introduced a nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus, satellite imagery showed on Friday, in a new example of the pandemic's potential impact on emissions.

The world is "way off track" from meeting targets to limit global warming as the signs of a climate emergency grow more damaging, the United Nations has warned. Increasing heat, accelerating sea level rises, and extreme weather in 2019 were all indications of the impact of failing to rein in carbon emissions, said a report compiled by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation.

But researchers say the result is conservative, and that weather conditions that make fires more likely will continue to worsen.